DiS users' Albums of the Year 2011: vote here
Ho ho ho, it's Christmas time, and that means it's also that time of year where we all gather our thoughts, reflect on our purchases and rank your favourite albums of the year.
In the thread below, please list your TOP 5 albums of 2011 in order. (#1 being your favourite, naturally.) Should you choose not to rank them then each of your choices will be given an equal number of points.
It would be awfully appreciated if you could just list your albums in this thread and perhaps begin another to discuss them, as it's far easier for me to tally it all up that way.
Results will be out c. January 2nd.
So, guys and gals: get thinking and get voting.
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1. James Blake - S/T
2. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
3. Balam Acab - Woander / Wonder
4. Danny Brown - XXX
5. Mastodon - The Hunter
1. Wild Beasts - Smother
2. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
3. Nicholas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
4. Radiohead - TKOL
5. Aidan Moffat/Bill Wells - Everything’s Getting Older
1. Wild Beasts - Smother
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
4. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
5. The Field - Looping State Of Mind
1. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
2. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
3. Ensemble - Excerpts
4. Sacred Harp - Window’s a Fall
5. Banjo or Freakout - S/T
1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
2. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structure
3. Vladislav Delay Quartet - s/t
4. Tycho - Dive
5. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
1. Brontide - Sans Souci
2. ASIWYFA - Gangs
3. Battles - Gloss Drop
4. Tune-yards - whokill
5. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
1. The Horrors - Skying
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Craft Spells - Idle Labor
4. Veronica Falls - S/T
5. Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
01 Mountain Man - Grief
02 Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
03 Fucked Up - David Comes To LIfe
04 Death Grips - Ex Military
05 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
1. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
2. Destroyer - Kaputt
3. Nicolas Jaar - Space is only Noise
4. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
5. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. The Field - Looping State of Mind
3. Peaking Lights - 936
4. Wooden Shjips - West
5. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything's getting older
3. Katy B - On a mission
4. Low - C'mon
5. The Men - Leave home
Thanks!
1. Cavalier - A Million Horses
2. Junior Boys - It's All True
3. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
3. Monica Salmaso - Alma Lirica Brasileira
5. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
1. The Field - Looping State Of Mind
2. The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
3. Walls - Coracle
4. Death Grips - Ex-Military
5. Atlas Sound - Parrallax
1. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
2. James Blake - James Blake
3. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
4. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
5. And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
#1) The Field - Looping State Of Mind
#2) EMA - Past Life Marytred Saints
#3) M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming
#4) Washed Out - Within And Without
#5) Polinski - Labyrinths
Was tempted to include Lulu in there...
...as a joke, but then realised I wasn't entirely sure that I was 100% joking.
1. PJ Harvery - Let England Shake
2) World’s End Girlfriend – 7 Idiots
3) Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
4) A Winged Victory for the Sullen – S/T
5) The Antlers – Burst Apart
1, Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
2. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
3. Yuck - Yuck
4. Johnny Foreigner - Vs. Everyone
5. Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care.
Very nearly the only five new albums I've heard this year (The Decemberists and Emmy the Great just missed out).
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
4. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
5. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
1. Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip
2. Seefeel - Seefeel
3. Mark McGuire - A Young Person's Guide
4. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
5. Sleep Over - Forever
1)The Antlers - Burst Apart
2)Wild Beasts - Smother
3)Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone
4)Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
5) Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything's Getting Older
1. Johnny Foreigner vs. Everything
2. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
3. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
4. Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes
5. Slow Club - Paradise
1. Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Modeselektor - Monkeytown
3. Emika - Emika
4. Machinedrum - Room(s)
5. Vessels - Helioscope
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
4. Atlas Sound - Parallax
5. Youth Lagoon - Year Of Hibernation
1: Patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO
2: St. Vincent- Strange Mercy
3: Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
4: Balam Acab - Wander / Wonder
5: Radiohead - The King of Limbs
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Walls - Coracle
4. Horrors - Skying
5. Metronomy - The English Riviera
1/ The Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
2/ Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
3/ Big K.R.I.T. - Return Of 4Eva
4/ Panda Bear - Tomboy
5/ Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
1. Cave In- White Silence
2. Grails- Deep Politics
3. Autopsy- Macabre Eternal
4. Hate Eternal- Phoenix Amongst The Ashes
5. Beastie Boys- Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
1. Radiohead - TKOL
2. The Field - Looping State of Mind
3. The Antlers - Burst Apart
4. Apparat - The Devil's Walk
5. Tycho - Dive
1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 / Dropped Pianos EP
2. Radiohead - TKOL
3. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
4. Zomby - Dedication
5. Bjork - Biophilia
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
3. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
4. Wild Beasts - Smother
5 Bjork - Biophilia
pretty tough to seperate 3-5
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
3. Zomby - Dedication
4. Tuneyards - Whokill
5. Antlers - Burst Apart
Can I change?
If so: 1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Low - C'mon
3. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
4. Zomby - Dedication
5. Peaking Lights - 936
1 Africa HiTech – 93 Million Miles
2 Andy Stott – Passed Me By
3 Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
4 Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
5 Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
1. Slow Club - Paradise
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
4. Austra - Feel It Break
5. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
1.Yuck - Yuck
2.PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3.Alex Turner - Submarine
4.The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
5.Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
1. The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still
2. Airship - Stuck In This Ocean
3. Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
4. Asobi Seksu - Fluorescence
5. The Antlers - Burst Apart
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Brian Eno - Drums Between The Bells
3. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
4. Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell - Psychic Life
5. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
Although this may change before the year is out.
1. Pj Harvey - LES
2. The Horrors - Skying
3. Destroyer - Kapput
4. The Go team - Rolling blackouts
5. Tom Waits - Bad as me
1. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
2. My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind
3. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
4. Wye Oak - Civilian
5. Cults - Cults
IT'S NOT EVEN DECEMBER YET FFS
I havn'e really thought about this yet. But as a quick top 5, something like this:
1) Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2) Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
3) Kate Bush - Director's Cut
4) EMA - PastLife...
5) Kurt Vile Smoke Ring...
I forgot Bombay Bicycle Club
They're new album is absolutely flawless.
tough year...
1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1979 (his pinnacle so far)
2. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (my reaction to the music on this album couldn't be any different from my disdain for the albums cover)
3. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light
4. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything's Getting Older
5. Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare
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1 Frank Ocean - Nostalgia/Ultra
2 Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3 Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
4 The Throne - Watch The Throne
5 John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
none better than 8/10 though, for me
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2. Tune-Yards - Whokill
3. Fucked Up - DCTL
4. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
5. Wilco - The Whole Love
1. Destroyer - Kaputt
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4. Yuck - Yuck
5. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring
1. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
2. Slow Club - Paradise
3. Yuck - yuck
4. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everythings Getting Older
5. Bright Eyes - The Peoples Key
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
3. Aidan Moffat/Bill Wells - Everything's Getting Older
4. patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO
5. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2-5. No idea.
1. Burst Apart - The Antlers
2. Smother - Wild Beasts
3. Let England Shake = PJ Harvey
4. The Rip Tide - Beirut
5. Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
1. Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
2. Title Fight - Shed
3. Transit - Listen and Forgive
4. Thursday - No Devolucion
5. Rival Schools - Pedals
1. A winged victory for the sullen - S/T
2. M83 - Hurry up, we're dreaming
3. Mogwai - Hardcore will never die, but you will
4. Beirut - Rip Tide
5. Antlers - Burst Apart
1) Andy Stott - Passed Me By/We Stay Together
2) Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
3) Clams Casino - Instrumentals
4) The Antlers - Burst Apart
5) Drake - Take Care
Been a good year for albums, but better for EPs imho
1. Metronomy - The English Riviera
2. The Field - Looping State of Mind
3. Dominik Eulberg - Diorama
4. GNOD Drop Out with White Hills - GNOD / White Hills
5. Plaid - Scintilli
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Fucked Up - David Come To Life
3. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
4. Crash of Rhinos - Distal
5. When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie
1 EMA - Past Life, Martyred Saints
2 Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everythings getting older
3 Girls - Father Son, Holy Ghost
4 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5 The Antlers - Burst Apart
1. Smoke ring..
2. Bon Iver..
3. Looping State of Mind..
4. Father Son Holy Ghost..
5. Tomboy..
Is this the proper one then?
1. Hype Williams - One Nation
2. Pinch & Shackleton - Pinch & Shackleton
3. Zomby - Dedication
4. LV - Routes
5. The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak
1 - The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing
2 - Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
3 - Balance and Composure - Separation
4 - Thursday - No Devolucion
5 - Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me
1 - The Antlers - Burst Apart
2 - The Wonder Years - Suburbia...
3 - Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
4 - Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies
5 - Title Fight - Shed
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Hype Williams - One Nation
3. Bjork - Biophilla
4. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
5. The Horrors - Skying
1. I Break Horses- Hearts
2. Bombay Bicycle Club- Different Kind of Fix
3. The War on Drugs- Slave Ambient
4. Atlas Sound- Parallax
5. Kurt Vile- Smoke Ring
1. Radiohead - TKOL
2. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
3. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
4. Deaf Center owl splinter
5. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
1. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
2. St Vincent – Strange Mercy
3. Yuck – Yuck
4. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
5. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
Runner-up prize goes to Tom Vek
1. wild beasts - smother
2. drake - take care
3. the antlers - bust apart
4. kate bush - 50 words for snow
5. bright eyes - the people's key
1. Shlohmo - Bad Vibes
2. Andy Stott - Passed Me By
3. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
4. Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer - Re:ECM
5. Panda Bear - Tomboy
1) Destroyer- Kaputt
2) Metronomy- English Riviera
3) The Field- Looping State of Mind
4) Mogwai- Hardcore Will Never Die
5) Streets- Computers and Blues
1. Vessels - Helioscope
2. The Field - Looping State of Mind
3. Low - C'mon
4. ...And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
5. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
1. Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentleman
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Wild Beasts - Smother
4. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See
5. The Horrors - Skying
1.Bodi Bill - What?
2. Fredrik - Flora
3. Son Lux - We Are Rising
4. Apparat - the Devils Walk
5. Nils Frahm & Anne Muller - 7fingers
This thread is pretty dull with no comments!
1. Panda Bear - Tomboy
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Roly Porter - Aftertime
4. Bjork - Biophilia
5. James Blake st
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4312157
1.) Destroyer-Kaputt
2.) Kurt Vile-Smoke Ring for my halo
3.)Pj Harvey-Let England Shake
4.) Grimes-Halfaxa
5.) Tim Hecker- Ravedeath, 1972
are you still bitter about not being made avant garde editor? i thought we were over that
'voting' is more of a popularity contest.
DiS' official albums of the year, takes into account the 'votes' on this thread. I shift my perception when approximating the final list, based on regularity of use of the site, seniority of staff, specialist knowledge and so on and so forth. otherwise a 'list' ends up telling you that popular things are popular.
you are not being ignored.
this is not, i repeat, NOT a pointless exercise.
and we always run the reader vote as a news story, always have, always will.
this really shouldn't be clogging up this thread, so i'll shut up now.
Err...I said in the thread sean made a while back that I'd be happy to do this again
and he acknowledged it prior to my making this, so I don't think it's as big an issue as you're making it out to be.
how would you suggest it was done instead
this way 'works' and it is very DiS. everyone gets to see everyone else's lists. people see patterns. they check out something on a list of 5 where they know 4. Or they check out 4 releases on a list where they love the number 1 and don't know the rest. i think this is far more important than what is MOST POPULAR/agreeable/etc.
i only said that I hadn't come up with a better/easier way of doing it, that would tot up the points for us.
1) The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
2) Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo
3) St Vincent - Strange Mercy
4) Bon Iver - Bon Iver
5) Radiohead - The King of Limbs
1) The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
2) The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
3) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4) St Vincent - Strange Mercy
5) Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
1. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
2. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
3. Wilco - The Whole Love
4. The Strokes - Angles
5. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
1) St Vincent - Strange Mercy
2)Atlas Sound - Parallax
3)Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
4)Zomby - Dedication
5)Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
1. Banjo or Freakout - S/T
2. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
3. The Horrors - Skying
4. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
5. Yuck - S/T
1. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes
4. Beirut - The Rip Tide
5. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
'Kaputt' - Destroyer
'Severant' - Kuedo
'Smother' - Wild Beasts
'English Riviera' - Metronomy
'New Look' - New Look
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
3. Low - C'Mon
4. Grails - Depp Politics
5. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
really wanted to include Tuneyards, EITS, Earth, Roll the Dice, ...And So I Watch You From Afar and Braids in there too!
The Antlers - Burst Apart
King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
Bill Callahan - Apocolypse
Wild Beasts - Smother
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
The Field - Looping state of mind
kate Bush - 50 words for snow
PJH - Let England Shake
Mister Heavenly - Out of Love
The Antlers - Burst Apart
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
4. Dels - Gob
5. Tune Yards - Whokill
That was really hard. Can I change my mind in the morn?
1. Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues
2. St Vincent- Strange Mercy
3. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
4. The Antlers- Burst Apart
5. Oneohtrix Point Never- Replica
1) Luke Haines - Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and early ’80s
2)Trouble Books and Mark McGuire - Trouble Books and Mark McGuire
3)The High Llamas - Talahomi Way
4)Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
5)Modular - Sinfonias para Terricolas
1. Destroyer- Kaputt
2. Nicolas Jaar- Space is Only Noise
3. The Field- Looping State of Mind
4. Tom Waits- Bad As Me
5. Wild Beasts- Smother
Put Undun by the Roots at No. 3 and push the other ones back
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. How to Dress Well - Love Remains
3. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
4. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
5. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2. Radiohead - TKOL
3. Atlas Sound - Parralax
4. Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
5. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
hiiii
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Clams Casino - Instrumentals
3. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
4. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
5. Peaking Lights - 936
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4. Wild Beasts - Smother
5. ...Andsoiwatchyoufromafar - Gangs
Every year my lists get less and less Rock-y
Oh, age.
1,SBTRKT -SBTRKT
2.L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Routes
3.Frank Ocean - Nostalgia,Ultra
4.John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
5.Metronomy - The English Riviera
ONE: Battles - Gloss Drop
TWO: Wild Beasts - Smother
THREE: Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
FOUR: Braids - Native Speaker
FIVE: The Antlers - Burst Apart
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Snowman - Absence
4. Elite Gymnastics - RUIN
5. The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still
1. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
4. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
5. Beirut - The Rip Tide
1.Thee Oh Sees-Castlemania
2.Thee Oh Sees-Carrion Crawler/The Dream
3.Eleanor Friedberger-Last Summer
4.Thurston Moore-Demolished Thoughts
5.Mogwai-Hardcore will never die,but you will
so many people posted so quickly!
1. Belong - Common Era
2. Epic45 - Weathering
3. Tycho - Dive
4. Mogwai - Hardcore will never die, but you will
5. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Honorable mentions to Destroyer, The Antlers, Vessels and A Winged Victory for the Sullen
1. Destroyer - Kaputt
2. Metronomy - The English Riviera
3. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
4. Bjork - Biophilia
5. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
1. Handsome Furs — Sound Kapital
2. Wild Flag — Wild Flag
3. Boris — Attention Please
4. The Joy Formidable — The Big Roar
5. Cold Cave — Cherish the Light Years
Whinge, whinge, whinge...people always find a way to whinge.
a) The thread's boring? It's not a discussion thread - it's a means to an end. If you'd read my initial post you'd see that I requested another thread to be made to discuss votes which - gasp - was donw very promptly by another user.
b) Oh, it's so early to be doing this, moan, moan, moan. So vote later on in the day, then! The initial post said i'd give the results Jan. 2nd, so you've a while yet. A thread asking how we should do this this year suggested starting now, so it's been done.
End rant. Thanks to those for voting already in a painless way.
My comment was more of an observation than a whinge
A thread with loads of lists (many of them very similar) but no comments is dull, but it serves a purpose and makes things easier for you.
The discussion threads should be better reading
1. Twerps - Twerps
2. Royal Headache - Royal Headache
3. Yuck - Yuck
4. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
5. Dick Diver - New Start Again
Big year for self-titled debuts.
1. Let England Shake – PJ Harvey
2.Bon Iver – Bon Iver
3.Burst Apart – Antlers
4.Skying – The Horrors
5.50 Words – Kate Bush
1. Slow Club - Paradise
2. Brontide - Sans Souci
3. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
4. Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
5. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
1. Kate Bush - 50 words for snow
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Jay Z & Kanye - Watch The Throne
4. Bombay Bicyle Club - A Different Kind of Fix
5. New Look - New Look
1. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Destroyer - Kaputt
4. Luke Haines - 9 And 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations ....
5. Moon Due - Mazes
1.The Antlers - Burst Apart
2.Wild Beasts - Smother
3.Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
4.John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
5.Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
1. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
2. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
3. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
4. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
5. James Blake - James Blake
Thanking...
1. Destroyer – Kaputt
2. Battles – Gloss Drop
3. Mark McGuire – Get Lost
4. Trouble Books & Mark McGuire – s/t
5. Wilco – The Whole Love
Also: Radiohead, Tim Hecker, Low, Oneohtrix....
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2. The Horrors - Skying
3. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
4. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
5. Beirut - The Rip Tide
Relatively quiet year in terms of the quantity of great albums, but what has been good has been great!
1. Song Of Return - Limits
2. The Horrors - Skying
3. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
4.Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
5. The Moth & The Mirror - Honestly, This World
1. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
2. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
3. Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
4. The Antlers - Burst Apart
5. Yuck - Yuck
1. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
2. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See
3. War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
4. Beirut - The Rip Tide
5. Horrors - Skying
I'm not that indie, am I?
1) Braids - Native Speaker
2) Touche Amore - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
3) Johnny Foreigner - ... vs Everything
4) Friendly Fires - Pala
5) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
The Drive OST is the best thing I've heard this year, but I'm disqualifying that myself. The two Purity Ring singles would be second if they were somehow an album.
Like, super DiS indie I mean
1. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
2. James Blake - James Blake
3. Extrawelt - In Aufruhr
4. Dominik Eulberg - Diorama
5. Nils Frahm - Felt
1. How to Dress Well - Love Remains
2. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
3. Big Joan - The Long Slow Death of...
4. Wye Oak - Civilain
5. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Mirror Traffic
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Bjork - Biophillia
3. Radiohead - TKOL
4. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
5. Thrice - Major/Minor
Antlers - Burst Apart
The War on Drugs - slave ambient
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
Cloaks – Versions Grain
1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
2. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
3. Pure X - Pleasure
4. The Men - Leave Home
5. Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry
Honorable mentions: The Field, The Psychic Paramount, Wild Flag, Braids, Walls, Woods, Panda Bear, Six Organs of Admittance
1. Dutch Uncles - Cadenza
2. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
3. The Antlers - Burst Apart
4. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
5. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
#1 Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
#2 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
#3 Wild Beasts - Smother
#4 M83- Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
#5 British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
3. Alex Turner - Submarine
4. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
5. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
(6)Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Hardest year for a while
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the pit of the stomach
4. Youth Lagoon - The year of hibernation
5. IceAge - IceAge
Loads of others I could mention.
New Brigade ffs
1. Amon Tobin - ISAM
2. Radiohead - King of Limbs
3. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
4. Tycho - Dive
5. Subrosa - No Help from the Mighty Ones
1. Metronomy – The English Riviera
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Noah and the Whale – Last Night on Earth
4. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
5. Childish Gambino - Camp
1.Wild Beasts - Smother
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Antlers - Burst Apart
4. David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding
5. Real Estate - Days
Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
Summer Camp - Welcome To Condale
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Kate Bush - 50 words for snow
Death Grips - Exmilitary
British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
Peggy Sue - Acrobats
Johnny Foreigner - vs Everything
Victorian English Gentleman's Club - Bag of Meat
Emmy the Great - Virtue
Wait
Can I bump Emmy the Great for :
Cats and Cats and Cats - Motherwhale
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
3. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
4. War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
5. Stephen Malkmus - Mirror Traffic
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. SBTRKT - Sbtrkt
3. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
4. Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
5. When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie
6-10 + honourable mentions, here: http://seaninsound.tumblr.com/post/13110301174/my-10-favourite-lps-of-2011-1-the-antlers
1.Zomby - Dedication
2.Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
3.Kuedo - Severant
4.The Weeknd - House of Balloons
5.James Blake - James Blake
1. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. Battles - Gloss Drop
4. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
5. The Fierce and the Dead - If It Carries On Like This, We're Moving To Morecambe
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1. Slow Club - Paradise
2. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will
3. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
4. Tycho - Dive
5. Found - Factorycraft
Uhm
1. Los Campesinos- Hello Sadness
2. Fucked Up- David Comes to Life
3. Summer Camp- Welcome to Condale
4. James Blake- James Blake
5. Yuck- Yuck
1. Wild Beasts - Smother
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
4. James Blake - S/T
5. Lia Ices - Grown Unknown
1. Wild Beasts - Smother
2. The Field - Looping State Of Mind
3. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will
4. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
5. Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
1 St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
2 Destroyer - Kaputt
3 Metronomy - The English Riviera
4 Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
5 Real Estate - Days
1. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
2. Yuck - s/t
3. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
4. Friendly Fires - Pala
5. The Horrors - Skying
Little Dragon - Ritual Union
Foster The People - Torches
Josh Pyke - Only Sparrows
Glossies - Phantom Films
Bess Rogers - Out Of The Ocean
1. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
2. Destroyer - Kaputt
3. Wild Beasts - Smother
4. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
5. Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
1. Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. The Horrors - Skying
4. Wild Beasts - Smother
5. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Atlas Sound - Parallax
3. The Antlers - Burst Apart
4. Cat's Eyes - Cat's Eyes
5. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo
1. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
4. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
5. The Field - Looping State of Mind
1) The Horrors - Skying
2) The Drums - Portamento
3) Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See
4) Friendly Fires - Pala
5) Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
Girls - Father, Son and Holy Ghost
2. And So I Watch You From Afar...- Gangs
3. Antlers - Burst Apart
4. Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo
5. Beirut - The Rip Tide
1. Jenny Hval - Viscera
2. Los Campesinos - Hello Sadness
3. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleurs Libre
4. Tune-Yards - Whokill
5. Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
1. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
2. I Break Horses - Hearts
3. A Winged Victory For the Sullen - s/t
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
The Horrors - Skying
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix
Yuck - S/T
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
TV on The Radio - Nine Types of Light
1. Mogwai - Hardcore.....
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Wild Beasts - Smother
4. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
5. Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
1. tUnE-yArDs - W H O K I L L
2. Jeniferever - Silesia
3. Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
4. Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
5. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Mirror Traffic
1. Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes
2. Let's Wrestle - Nursing Home
3. Champion Kickboxer - Thumbs
4. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
5. Tyler the Creator - Goblin
1. Slow Club - Paradise
2. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
3. The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
4. Johnny Foreigner - JoFo v Everything
5. Friendly Fires - Pala
1. James Blake - James Blake
2. Big Deal - Lights Out
3. Metronomy - The English Riviera
4. Dominik Eulberg - Diorama
5. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
1. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
2. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
3. Wire - Red Barked Tree
4. Luke Haines - Nine And A Half Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970s And Early 80s
5. Wooden Shjips - West
1. Destroyer - Kaputt
2. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
3. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
4. Singing Adams - Everybody Friends Now
5. The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
1. Kverletak - Kverletak
2. Bill Wells/Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
3. Bjork - Biophilia
4. Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
5. Grails - Deep Politics
1. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
2. Johnny Foreigner - vs. Everything
3. The Horrors - Skying
4. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
5. Ringo Deathstarr - Color Trip
1. Still Corners - Creatures of an Hour
2. Princess Chelsea - Lil Golden Book
3. Future Islands - On the Water
4. Nerves Junior - As bright as your Night Light
5. Seapony - Come with me
1. Death Grips - Ex Military
2. Radiohead - TKOL
3. Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
4. Zomby - Dedication
5. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
1. J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why
2. Girls - Father Son and Holy Ghost
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4. Radiohead - King Of Limbs
5. Antlers - Burst Apart
1. Gus Gus - Arabian Horse
2. Dad Rocks! - Mount Modern
3. Austra - Feel It Break
4. Sacred Harp - Window's A Fall
5. Blanck Mass
1. The King of Limbs - Radiohead
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
4. Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Girls
5. Burst Apart - The Antlers
1 Hella - Tripper
2 Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit
3 Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
4 Hey Colossus - RRR
5 Enablers - Blown Realms & Stalled Explosions
I thought last year was a good year for releases but its been one of the best years for a while.
this is really hard
1. gang gang dance - eye contact
2. ford and lopatin - channel pressure
3. zomby - dedication
4. planningtorock - w
5. water borders - harbored mantras
1. Colin Stetson - Judges
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die...
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo
Los Campesinos - Hello Sadness
1. White Denim - D
2. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - S/T
3. The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
4. James Blake - S/T
5. Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
1. Radiohead - TKOL
2. Tune-Yards - Who Kill
3. Wild Beasts - Smother
4. Kate Bush - 50 words for snow
5. In Flagranti - Worse for wear
1. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
2. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
3. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - S/T
4. Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1
5. Battles - Gloss Drop
1. The Field - Looping State of Mind
2. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
3. Walls - Coracle
4. Marissa Nadler - Marissa Nadler
5. Wild Beasts - Smother
1. Iceage - New Brigade
2. James Blake - James Blake
3. Danny Brown - XXX
4. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
5. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
1. Boston Spaceships - Let It Beard
2. Craig Wedren - Wand
3. Office of Future Plans - S/T
4. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
5. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
1. Wild Beasts - Smother
2. Beirut - The Rip Tide
3. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
4. I Break Horses - Hearts
5. James Blake - James Blake
1. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
2. Slow Club - Paradise
3. Little Dragon - Ritual Union
4. Bright Eyes - The People's key
5. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
1. The Horrors - Skying
2. P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake
3. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
4. Wire - Red Barked Tree
5. The Antlers - Burst Apart
1. Various Artists - The Flowerpot Sessions
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
4. TuneYards - Who Kill
5. Gil Scott Heron and Jamie XX - We're New Here
Terrible year for classic albums.
Best year ever for excellent albums.
1. The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
2. Laura Marling - A Creature I Do Not Know
3. David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding
4. Metronomy - The English Riviera
5. The Joy Formidable - A Big Roar
1. TuNe-yArDs - whokill
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie
4. Parts and Labor - Constant Future
5. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
2. Rustie - Glass Swords
3. Patten - GLAQJQ XAACSSO
4. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
5. Destroyer - Kaputt
1. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
2. Roly Porter- Afterlife
3. Peggy Sue - Acrobats
4. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
5. Death Grips - Ex Military
1. Parts & Labor - Constant Future
2. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
3. The Field - Looping State of Mind
4. Beirut - The Rip Tide
5. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
1. Bon Iver - S/T
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Wild Beasts - Smother
4. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
5. How to Dress Well - Love Remains
Pretty generic, but fuck it.
1. Three Trapped Tigers - Route One Or Die
2. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
3. And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
4. The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
5. The Psychic Paramount - II
Fuck your lyrics.
1. Battles - Gloss Drop
2. SBTRKT - S/T
3. Metronomy - The English Riviera
4. Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind Of Fix
5. Panda Bear - Tomboy
Hated Gloss Drop to begin with as well.
1. Dananananaykroyd - There Is A Way
2. Three Trapped Tigers - Route One Or Die
1. Los Campesinos - Hello Sadness
2. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
3. Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
4. Slow Club - Paradise
5. Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
1. James Blake - James Blake
2. Prefuse 73 - The Only She Chapters
3. Deerhoof - Vs Evil
4. Gabriel Kahane - Where Are The Arms
5. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Though I daresay there's still loads I have to listen to. This isn't discussion btw.
1.josh t pearson: last of the country gentlemen
2.The Antlers: Burst Apart
3. The Decemberists: The King is Dead
4. Tom Waits: Bad as Me
5. Zombi: Escape Velocity
1. Bjork - Biophilia
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
4. The Streets - Computers And Blues
4. The Strokes Angles
1 colin stetson - new history warfare vol. 2 judges
2 aiden moffat/bill wells - everything's getting older
3 title fight - shed
4 trap them - darker handcraft
5 rwake - rest
1. The Kills - Blood Pressures
2. Wooden Shjips - West
3. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
Suuns - Zeroes QC
Skull Defekts - Peer Amid
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
The Men - Leave Homes
*Leave Home
Looks like it sneaks in with a UK release 10 January 2011.
Have you heard Bambi and Red Song yet?
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
4. Destroyer - Kaputt
5. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
1. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
2. Fucked Up - David's Town
3. Ringo Deathstarr - Color Trip
4. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
5. Still Corners - Creatures Of An Hour
So many great records this year - Iceage, HTRK, Future Islands, Esben and the Witch, Blouse, Selebrities, Braids, Belong...and probably others I've forgotten about.
1. Wild Beasts - Smother
2. tUnE-yArDs - W H O K I L L
3. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
4. SBTRKT- SBTRKT
5. The Field - Looping State of Mind
Not as many albums that i've adored (I've been mainly bleeding Age of Adz and The Monitor further into my cortex), but I do agree with the someone who said there've been a lot of excellent albums, easily could've put in Fucked Up, Jamie XX & Gil-Scott Heron, Walls, St. Vincent etcera.
1. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
2. Yuck - Yuck
3. Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip
4. Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
5. Counterparts - The Current Will Carry Us
1. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
2. Patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
5. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
1. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
2. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
3. The Horrors - Skying
4. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
5. Peaking Lights - 936
My number 1) is tenuous as it's essentially a re-issue of three records, but it is that good that it deserves inclusion
1) Demdike Stare - Triptych
2) Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
3) Andy Stott - Passed Me By & We Stay Together
4) Zomby - Dedication
5) Grails - Deep Politics
These are the five I submitted to DiS for the writer's AOTY. I regret leaving out Clams Casino.
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Beirut - The Rip Tide
3. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
4. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
5. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
1) The Antlers – Burst Apart
2) Moffat & Wells – Everything’s Getting Older
3) Veronica Falls- S/T
4) Fucked Up- David Comes To Life
5) Ryan Adams- Ashes & Fire
1.The Field – Looping State of Mind
2. Beirut – The Rip Tide
3. The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
4. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo
5. Walls – Coracle
1. Pure X - Pleasure
2. Belong - Common Era
3. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
4. Peaking Lights - 936
5. Wooden Shjips - West
1. Zomby - Dedication
2. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
3. Wugazi - 13 Chambers
4. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
5. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
1. Wilco - the whole love
2. Kurt Vile, Smoke ring for my halo
3. Mary Hampton, folly
4. Laura Marling, a Creature I don’t know
5. Birdengine, the Crooked mile
1. Typhoon - A New Kind of House (EP)
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. The Antlers - Burst Apart
4. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
5. Sin Fang - Summer Echoes
No particular order
1 - Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts
2 - Rangers - Pan Am Stories
3 - The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
4 - Tom Waits - Bad As Me
5 - Hype Williams - One Nation / Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
3. The Antlers - Burst Apart
4. Björk - Biophillia
5. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
4. Björk - Biophilia
5. Metronomy - The English Riviera
1 Colin Stetson - new history warfare vol. 2 judges
2.The Battles- Gloss Drop
3.Jon Hopkins & King Creosote- Diamond Mine
4.John Maus- We must become the pitiless censors of ourselves
5.Low- C'mon
Difficult job this one.
1) Metronomy - The English Riviera
2) The Antlers - Burst Apart
3) Wild Beasts - Smother
4) British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
5) Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
Ummmmmm...
1. The Field - Looping State of Mind
2. M83 - Hurry up We're Dreaming.
3. Epic45 - Weathering.
4. Decemberists - The King is Dead
5. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow.
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Future Islands - On The Water
3. Moon Duo - Mazes
4. Mates Of State - Mountaintops
5. Banjo or Freakout - Banjo or Freakout
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
Shlohmo - Bad Vibes
Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
Veronica Falls - S/T
Balam Acab - Wander/ Wonder
1. Destroyer - Kaputt
2. Main Attrakionz - Two Man Horror Film/various others
3. Danny Brown - XXX
4. Lil B - I'm Gay
5. Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix
Desperately wanted to put Clams Casino on there separately but thought that might be overkill.
1. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
2. Metronomy - The English Riviera
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
4. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
5. Kimbra - Vows
1. The Field - Looping State of Mind
2. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
3. Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years
4. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it & See
5. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Ah bollocks
how could I forget Mogwai!!!
1.The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
3. Wild beasts - Smother
4. The Horrors - Skying
5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
That was tough, really top year this one.
1. Kate Wax - Dust Collision
2. Water Borders - Harbored Mantras
3. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2. War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4. Battles - Gloss Drop
5. M83 - Hurry up we're dreaming
1) Antlers - Burst Apart
2) Horrors - Skying
3) Fruit Bats - Tripper
4) Alex Turner - Submarine S/T
5) Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
1) The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
2) M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming
3) 13 & God - Own Your Ghost
4) Destroyer - Kaputt
5) Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital
1. Destroyer - Kaputt
2. Metronomy - The English Riviera
3. The Field - Looping state of mind
4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
5. A$AP Rocky - LiveLoveA$ap
1. Radical Face - Family Tree/Roots
2. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
3. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
4. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
5. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
1. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
2. Slow Club - Paradise
3. Death Grips - Ex Military
4. Suuns - Zeroes QC
5. Modeselektor - Monkeytown
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. CYHSY - Hysterical
3. Wooden Shjips - West
4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
5. The Field - looping state of mind
1. White Denim - D
2. Decemberists - The King is Dead
3. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
4. Lia Ices - Grown Unknown
5. Tune Yards - whokill
1. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
2. Kid Canaveral - Shouting at Wildlife
3. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
4. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
5. Iceage - New Brigade
1) Atlas Sound - Parallax
2) Drugstore - Anatomy
3) Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation
4) Lee Noble – No Becoming
5) Tim Hecker – Dropped Pianos
1. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
2. Pinch & Shackleton - Pinch and Shackleton
3. M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming
4. Wild Beasts - Smother
5. Rustie - Glass Swords
1. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
2. Los Campesinos - Hello Sadness
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
4. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
5. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Right, no changing, this is the same Top 5 I submitted to the staff list.
1. Destroyer - Kaputt
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Jenny Hval - Viscera
4. Årabrot - Solar Anus
5. Nils Frahm - Felt
2011
1. Wild Beasts - Smother
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
4. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
5. Destroyer - Kaputt
1 – Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
2 – Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
3 – Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
4 – Vetiver – The Errant Charm
5 – Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
1. Belong 'Common Era'
2. Real Estate 'Days'
3. Big Troubles 'Romantic Comedy'
4. Grouper 'A|A': Alien Observer/Dream Loss
5. Atlas Sound 'Parallax'
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie
3. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
5. Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!
1. Youth Lagoon- The Year of Hibernation
2. Conquering Animal Sound- Kammerspiel
3. Manchester Orchestra- Simple Math
4. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
5. WU LYF- Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1979
2. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra
3. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
4. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
5. Bon Iver - s/t
1. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
2. Lia Ices - Grown Unknown
3. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
4. The Amazing - Gentle Stream
5. Half Man Half Biscuit - 90 Bisodol (crimond)
1. Psychic Paramount-II
2.Deaf Center-Owl Splinters
3.Bonnie Prince Billy-Wolfroy Goes To Town
4.Darondo-Listen To My Song
5.Beach Boys-Smile(2cd Box Set).
I realize 4 and 5 are re-issues but....meh.
1. Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
2. Braids - Native Speaker
3. Destroyer - Kaputt
4. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
5. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
1.Tune-Yards - Whokill
2.Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
3.Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
4.Iceage - New Brigade
5.The Horrors - Skying
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
3. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
4. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic
5. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadnes
1. Atlas Sound - Parralax
2. Kate Wax - Dust Collision
3. Iceage - New Brigade
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
1) Johnny Foreigner: Johnny Foreigner vs Everything
2) Three Trapped Tigers: Route One Or Die
3) Vessels: Helioscope
4) SBTRKT: SBTRKT
5) Katy B: Katy B
Obviously I mean
5) Katy B: On A Mission
1) The Antlers - Burst Apart
2)Colourmusic - My ______ Is Pink
3)Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
4)Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
5)Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
1) Teenage Cool Kids - Denton After Sunset
2) Real Estate - Days
3)Mazes - A Thousand Heys
4) Fergus & Gernimo - Unlearn
5) Mikal Cronin - S/T
destroyer-kaputt
fucked up
low
youth lagoon
war on drugs
terrific year for music
1) Atlas Sound - Parallax
2) Braids - Native Speaker
3) Peaking Lights - 936
4) Destroyer - Kaputt
5) Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
G'wan then...
1) Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
2) The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
3) James Blake - James Blake
4) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5) Wild Beasts - Smother
1) EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
2) Metronomy - The English Riviera
3) SBTRKT - SBTRKT
4) Slow Club - Paradise
5) Nils Frahm - Felt
1) Kuedo - Severant
2) Machinedrum - Room(s)
3) Rustie - Glass Swords
4) LV - Routes
5) Zomby - Dedication
Fuck i dunno
1) Gang Gang Dance- Eye Contact
2) How To Dress Well- Love Remains
3) ...And So I Watch You From Afar- Gangs
4) Three Trapped Tigers- Route One or Die
5) Destroyer- Kaputt
If How To Dress Well doesn't count then put A Winged Victory For the Sullen's S/T at the end instead.
Cheers
My top 5
1. Josh T Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen
2. Los Campesinos – Hello Sadness
3. Bill Wells & Aidan John Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
4. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
5. The Mountain Goats – All Eternal Decks
1. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
2. Digitalism - I Love You, Dude
3. Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
4. Nero - Welcome Reality
5. Russian Circles - Empros
1. Johnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner Vs Everything
2. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
3. Wild Beasts - Smother
4. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
5. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
in no p'tikler order
yuck, black lips, the fall, crystal stilts, disappears (this may be my #1). does the smile sessions count? if so that's at the top.
1. Johnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner Vs Everything
2. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
3. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
4. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departures
5. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
Echoing bornin69...
...can we revise our lists by appending an update to our original posts? Following recommendations above, I've just bought Walls and The Field (it was on the list), and they're moving on up...
1. Low- C'mon
2. Tim Hecker- Ravedeath, 1972
3. PJ Harvey- Let England Shake
4. Colin Stetson- New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
5. Wu Lyf- Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Wilco - The Whole Love
3. Battles - Gloss Drop
4. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
5. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
3. Metronomy - The English Riviera
4. Yuck - Yuck
5. James Blake - James Blake
1. Laura Cantrell - Kitty Wells Dresses
2. Half Man Half Biscuit - 90 Bisodol (Crimond)
3. Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
4. The Singing Adams - Everyone Friends Now
5. My Dying Bride - The Barghest O' Whitby (more a 2-track ep, but it is about 40 minutes long. Not that it matters, since it won't pick up any other votes)
1. Death Grips - Exmilitary
2. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
3. Bjork - Biophilia
4. Mastodon - The Hunter
5. Chilly Gonzales - The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
1. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
2. The Horrors - Skying
3. Death In Vegas - Trans-Love Energies
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die
#1 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
#2 Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
#3 Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
#4 Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
#5 The Field - Looping State of Mind
it's been another amazing year! over a hundred other excellent LPs.
#1 is just a bit more special than the rest, though #2 is a stunner and made a late run for glory. plenty of others may turn out to be classics.
special mention to TKoL for being wonderful, actually, and to Andy
Stott for two stellar EPs.
a change in my top 5
#1 Destroyer - Kaputt
that John Calvert article was a timely reminder of the true depth and greatness of the album.
all the rest drop a place, which means The Field miss out.
another change
#1 Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges
#2 Destroyer - Kaputt
#3 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
#4 Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
#5 Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
That should be it.
oh fuck it
PJ doesn't need another vote. as much as I love that record.
#3 Machinedrum - Room(s)
1. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Iceage - New Brigade
4. Mogwai - Hardcore will never die, but you will
5. True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth
1 - Trail Of Dead - Tao of the Dead
2 - Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
3 - The Ergon Carousel - s/t
4 - Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
5 - Parts & Labor - Constant Future
Cannot believe people have forgotten about the Trail of Dead album, the 16 min track on there is the finest thing they've done since Source Tags, I was amazed...! These threads serve as good reminders for what I have and no listened to yet and probably should check out - still not got the PJ harvey album and I'm such a fanboy my daughter's named after her..!
1. Pure X - Pleasure
2. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
3. Cults - Cults
4. Quilt - Quilt
5. Balam Acab - Wander / Wonder
1: The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
2: Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
3: Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings
4: Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
5: Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Holly Throsby - Team
3. Destroyer - Kaputt
4. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
5. Cults - Cults
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Low - C'Mon
3. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
4. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
5. Dutch Uncles - Cadenza
1. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
4. Wild Beasts - Smother
5. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
1. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
2. Tesseract - One
3. The Joy Formidable - Big Roar
4. I Break Horses - Hearts
5. Radiohead - TKOL
1.Aanna
1. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
2. Tom Vek - Leisure Seizure
3. Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours
4. Wye Oak - Civilian
5. Radiohead - TKOL
1. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
2. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything's Getting Older
3. The Antlers - Burst Apart
4. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Hysterical
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2. Washed Out - Within and Without
3. Clams Casino - Instrumentals
4. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
5. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
1. One Thousand Pictures - Pete And The Pirates
2. Get Well Soon - Sarabeth Tucek
3. A Creature I Don't Know - Laura Marling
4. Slave Ambient - The War On Drugs
5. Valhalla Dancehall - British Sea Power
1. The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
2. Death Grips - Ex Military
3. Anthrax - Worship Music
4. Gum Takes Tooth - Silent Cenotaph
5. Dels - Gob
non ranked
the people's key - bright eyes
past life martyred saints - ema
ulalume - tasseomancy
tragedy - julia holter
ravedeath 1972 - tim hecker
1. Go Tell Fire To The Mountain - Wu Lyf
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
4. I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone - Maybeshwill
5. Gangs - And So I Watch You From Afar
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. The Horrors - Skying
3. Slow Club - Paradise
4. Wild Beasts - Smother
5. BSP - Valhalla Dancehall
!1. War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
2. Alexander Tucker - Dorwytch
3. Arboretum - The Gathering
4. Hiss Golden Messenger - Poor Moon
5. Wooden Shjips - West
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
3. And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
4. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
5. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
1. Battles - Drop Gloss
2. Tune-yards - W H O K I L L
3. The Field - Looping State of Mind
4. Modeselektor - Monkeytown
5. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Wye Oak - Civilian
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
4. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
5. Wild Beasts - Smother
#1 SBTRKT
#2 James Blake
#3 Death Grips- Ex-Military
#4 Rustie - Glass Swords
#5 Civil Civic - Rules
1. Paris Suit Yourself - My Main Shitstain
2. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
3. Homesick Hustlers - Sinners
4. EMA - Past Lives Martyred Saints
5. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
1. Sin Fang-Summer Echoes
2. Wild Beasts-Smother
3. WhoMadeWho-Knee Deep
4. Austra-Feel It Break
5. Little Dragon-Ritual Union
1. And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
2.Polinski - Labrynths
3= Dad Rocks! - Mount Modern
3= Crash Of Rhinos - Distal
4- Antlers- Burst Apart
5- Three Trapped Tigers- Route One or Die
If two joint 3s aren't allowed then drop TTT, but that would be sad.
1. tUnE - yArDs - W H O K I L L
2. Dad Rocks - Mount Modern
3. Deer Tick Divine Providence
4. Jonny Corndawg - Down On The Bikini Line
5. Fair Ohs - Fair Ohs
Top 5 Albums of 2011
1. Destroyer - Kaputt
2. The Psychic Paramount - II
3. Austra - Feel it Break
4. Antlers - Burst Apart
5. Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
1. War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
2. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
3. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
4. The Field - Looping State Of Mind
5. Destroyer - Kaputt
1. The Psychic Paramount - II
2. The Field - Looping State Of Mind
3. Iceage - New Brigade
4. Battles - Gloss Drop
5. Tune-Yards - Whokill
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Austra - Feel It Break
3. The Antlers - Burst Apart
4. The Horrors - Skying
5. Metronomy - The English Riviera
1. The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
2. Tune-Yards - whokill
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4. Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped
5. Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Low - C'mon
4. Destroyer - Kaputt
5. Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine
1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
2. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - S/T
3. Walls - Coracle
4. OPN - Replicate
5. Cats and Cats and Cats - Motherwhale
* replica obv
1. Austra - Feel it Break
2. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
3. Trail of Dead - Tao of Dead
4. Metronomy - English Riviera
5. Battles - Gloss Drop
It's obvious, it's dust collision!
Honestly, no doubt for me. This is this years (or next?) best effort (at least from an emergent artist), although it was an amazing year. should've been in your top ten or top twenty, honestly. I'm also very suprised not see death in vegas more often.
1. kate wax - dust collision
2. walls - coracle
3. PJ Harvey - Let england shake
4. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
5. Death in Vegas - Trans-love Energies
1. Iceage - New Brigade
2. EMA - Past Life Martyed Saints
3. Pictureplane - Thee Physical
4. Clams Casino - Instumentals
5. Rustie - Glass Swords
1. Wild Beasts - Smother
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 72
4. Mogwai - Harcdore Will Never Die, But You Will
5. True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth
1. Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped
2. Youth Lagoon - Year of Hibernation
3. Low - C'mon
4. Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island
5. Apparat - The Devil's Walk
Can't believe no one's mentioned Iron & Wine yet...
1. Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Destroyer - Kaputt
4. Low - C'mon
5. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
1. Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. *shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo
4. Nicolas Jaar - Space is only Noise
5. The Soft Moon - s/t
1. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
2. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
4. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
5. Zomby - Dedication
Can't decide on order, hard enough to just choose 5
.Tune-Yards- WHOKILL
.Bon Iver - Bon Iver
.White Denim - D
.And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
.Metronomy - The English Riviera
1. Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
2. Destroyer - Kaputt
3. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
4. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - S/T
5. Washed Out - Within and Without
1. Drums - Portamento
2. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
3. Vaccines, The - What Did You Expect?
4. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
5. Beirut - The Rip Tide
1. Wild Beasts - Smother
2. Gil-Scott Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here
3. The Field - Looping State of Mind
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Still got plenty left to hear.. but anyway
1. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
2. Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island
3. Twerps - Twerps
4. Times New Viking - Dancer Equired
5. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream
1. Kurt Vile- Smoke Ring For My Halo
2. Ghostpoet- Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
3. Peaking Lights- 936
4. Metronomy- The English Riviera
5. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
Difficult, Kurt Vile is the only one I've properly fallen in love with.
Vondelpark - NYC Stuff & NYC Bags EP
2. Raleigh Moncrief - Watered Lawn
3. John Maus :: We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
4. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
5. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
1. Doomsday Student - A Jumper's Handbook
2 Honey For Petzi - General Thoughts and Tastes
3. Cheer-Accident - no ifs, ands or dogs
4. Nisennenmondai - Nisennenmondai Live!!!
5. I'm Being Good - Mountain Language
1. Future Islands - On the Water
2. Hooray for Earth - True Loves
3. Still Corners - Creatures of an Hour
4. Austra - Feel It Break
5. Gus Gus - Arabian Horse
I'm sure there's a lot better music out there, but from what I've heard so far...
1. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
2. M83 - Hurry up we're dreaming
3. Dutch Uncles - Cadenza.
4. Justice - Audio, Video, Disco.
5. Little Dragon - Ritual Union.
And a few honorable mentions to "Black Cat Neighborhood" - Fallulah, "The Night Visitor" - Anna Ternheim, "Ceremonials" - Florence + the Machine, "The Drummer" - Niky & the Dove (dunno if it counts, seeing how it is an EP) and finally "El Camino" - The Black Keys.
1 Washed Out - Within And Without
2 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3 Low - C'mon
4 Apparat - The Devil's Walk
5 Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Roots
1. Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip
2. Destroyer - Kaputt
3. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect
4. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
5. Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
1. Half Man Half Biscuit - 90 Bisodol (Crimond)
2. Wire - Red Barked Trees
3. Yuck - Yuck
4. Parts & Labor - Constant Future
5. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
1. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. The Horrors - Skying
4. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Honorable mentions to "Science of the Sea" - Jürgen Müller, "The King of Limbs" - Radiohead and "Let England Shake" - PJ Harvey.
Thread needs more ^This's
I guess that's the problem though.
Why? There's a discussion thread separate to this.
People generally won't trail through this reading the lists because that then ruins the element of surprise when the final list is produced.
And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
White Denim - D
The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Civil Civic - Rules
1. Cass McCombs - Wit's End
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
3. The Unthanks - Last
4. Washed Out - Within and Without
5. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
1. 'Let England Shake' - PJ Harvey
2. 'Skying'- Horrors
3. 'Valhalla Dancehall' - British Sea Power
4. 'Smother' - Wild Beasts
5. 'Bon Iver' - Bon Iver
'k
1. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting
4. Love Inks - E.S.P.
5. Conquering Animal Sound - Kammerspiel
1. Perfume - JPN
2. The Grateful Dead - Europe '72 Vol. 2
3. Lil B - Illusions of Grandeur
4. Main Attrakionz - Chandelier
5. Elite Gymnastics - RUIN
1. TuneYards - WHOKILL
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
4. Clams Casino - Instrumental
5. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
1. Pinch & Shackleton - Pinch & Shackleton
2. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
3. The Caretaker - An empty bliss beyond this world
4. The Antlers - Burst Apart
5. Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell - Ghosts Outside
1. Patten - GLAQO XAACSSO
2. Austin Peralta - Endless Planets
3. Seb Rochford & Pamelia Kurstin - Ouch Evil Slow Hop
4. Thundercat - The Golden age of Apocolypse
5. Micachu & the Shapes - Chopped and Screwed
fairly limited exposure this year but:
1. rustie-glass swords
2. four tet-fabriclive
3. radiohead-king of limbs
4. stephen malkmus + jicks-mirror traffic
5. times new viking-dancer equired
1. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
2. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
3. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
4. British Sea Power - Valhall Dancehall
5. Metronomy - The English Riviera
1. Wire - Red Barked Tree
2. Veronica Falls - s/t
3. Boston Spaceships - Let It Beard
4. John Maus - We must become...
5. Gavin Friday - Catholic
1. Andy Stott-Passed Me By/We Stay Together
2. Julia Holter-Tragedy
3. Clams Casino- Rainforest
4. A Winged Victory For The Sullen-S/T
5. Prurient-Bermuda Drain
1. True Widow - As High as The Highest Heavens and From the Centre to the Circumference of the Earth
2. Destroyer - Kaputt
3. Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me - Touché Amoré
4. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
5. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
2. Death Grips - Ex Military
3. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
4. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
5. Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
1) The Drums - Portamento
2) Alexi Murdoch - Towards The Sun
3) Wild Beasts - Smother
4) Thao & Mirah - S/T
5) Veronica Falls - S/T
1. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
2. The Antlers – Burst Apart
3. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
4. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
5. Zomby – Dedication
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
3. Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
4. Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentleman
5. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. The Babies - S/T
3. Grouper - Dream Loss / Alien Observer
4. Mogwai - HWNDBYW
5. Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Mirror Traffic
1. Peaking Lights - 936
2. Ash Borer - Ash Borer
3. Austra – Feel it Break
4. Liturgy - Aesthetica
5. Pete Swanson – Man With Potential
1) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2)EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
3)Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
4)Grouper - Dream Loss/Alien Observer
5)Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
1. Balam Acab- Wander/Wonder
2. Sun Araw- Ancient Romans
3. How To Dress Well- Love Remains
4. Julianna Barwick- The Magic Place
5. Wu Lyf- Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
1. Destroyer - Kaputt
2. James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual
3. Braids - Native Speaker
4. John Maus - We Must Become The Pittless Censors of Ourselves
5. Roomate - Guilty Rainbow
1. Destroyer - Kaputt
2. James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual
3. Braids - Native Speaker
4. John Maus - We Must Become The Pittless Censors of Ourselves
5. Roomate - Guilty Rainbow
1. Belong - Common Era
2. Pure X - Pleasure
3. Dustin O’Halloran - Lumiere
4. Nils Frahm - Felt
5. Saåad - Delayed Summer
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Beirut - The Rip Tide
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
4. Wild Beasts - Smother
5. Metronomy - The English Riviera
Uno. Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
Dos. Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong
Tres. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
Cuatro. Peggy Sue - Acrobats
Cinco, Cinco, Seis. - Cloud Control - Bliss Release
1. Metronomy - The English Riviera
2. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
3. The Antlers - Burst Apart
4. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
5. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
in no order
Disappears - Guider (this is my #1)
The Fall
Yuck
Wild Flag
Crystal Stilts
Black Lips
Belle & Sebastian (like comfy slippers)
Those Darlins
1. The Antlers : Burst Apart
2. PJ : Let England Shake
3. Gillian Welch : The Harrow & The Harvest
4. Bon Iver : Bon Iver
5. Josh T : Last Of The Country Gentlemen
1. Mikal Cronin - Mikal Cronin
2. Future Islands - On The Water
3. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
4. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
5. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
1 cave - neverendless
2 my disco -little joy
3 tim Becker - rave death 1972
4 and so I watched you from afar - gangs
5 the psychic paramount - II
1. The High Llamas - Talahomi Way
2. Nils Frahm - Felt
3. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
4. Bill Wells & Aiden Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
5. Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass
1. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
2. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
3. Destroyer - Kaputt
4. M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
5. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
1. PJ Harvey-Let England Shake
2.The Field-Looping State Of Mind
3.Horrors-Skying
4.Millionyoung-Replicants
5.Metronomy-English Riviera
1. Liturgy - Aesthethica
2. Mark McGuire - A Young Person's Guide...
3. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
4. Tim Key - Tim Key. With a String Quartet. On a Boat.
5. Bon Iver - S/T
If compilations don't count then get rid of McGuire, shove everyone up a space and put the Ash Borer S/T in 5th.
1. Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped
4. The Field - Looping State of Mind
5. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light vol. 1
This:
1. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
2. Yacht - Shangri-La
3. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
4. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
5. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
1. Bon Iver - S/T
2. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
3. Vessels - Helioscope
4. James Blake - S/T
5. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
1. Craft Spells//Idle Labor
2. Josh T. Pearson//Last of the Country Gentlemen
3. Gang Gang Dance//Eye Contact
4. Dirty Beaches//Badlands
5. Cults//Cults
1. Old Amica - For A Second EP
2. Dillon - This Silence Kills
3. The Real Tuesday Weld - The Last Werewolf
4. 13 & God - Own Your Ghost
5. Fredrik - Flora
1. SBTRKT - self titled
2. Metronomy - The English Riviera
3. Bon Iver - self titled
4. Beirut - The Ript Tide
5. Destroyer - Kaputt
(Only bought the Destroyer album a couple of days ago, so I may be getting a bit ahead of myself really...but I think I'm in love...if it hadn't been for that 5th would of been either Radiohead or Real Estate I reckon)
1. Nils Framh - felt
2. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the countrygentlemen
3. Joan as policewoman - The deep field
4.Agnes Obel - philiharmonics
5. The wave pictures - Beer in the breakers
probably not the five best albums of the year but probably the ones i'm most likely to keep listening to as time goes by. Honourable mention to Disco inferno - the five eps.
1. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
2. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
3. Feist - Metals
4. Antlers - Burst Apart
5. Low - C'Mon
1. New Look - New Look
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
5. Austra - Feel It Break
1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
4. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
5. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
1. Trembling Bells - The Constant Pageant
2. The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
3. Frank Fairfield - Out On The Open West
4. Battles - Gloss Drop
5. Tom Vek - Leisure Seizure
1. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
2. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
3. How To Dress Well - Love Remains
4. Rival Schools - Pedals
5. Atlas Sound - Parallax
1# The Horrors - Skying
2# Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
3# Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
4# The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
5# Wild Beasts - Smother
1. Pete & The Pirates - One Thousand Pictures
2. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
3. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
4. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
5. Low - C'Mon
1. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
2. Julia Holter - Tragedy
3. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
4. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
1. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
2. P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Trembling Bells - Constant Pageant
4. Beirut - The Rip Tide
5. Luke Haines - 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and early '80s
1 Johnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner vs Everything
2 The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
3 Bright Eyes - The People's Key
4 Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
5 Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
1. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
2. Wild Beasts - Smother
3. Destroyer - Kaputt
4. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
5. James Blake - James Blake
1. Battles - Gloss Drop
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
3. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
4. Jape - Ocean Of Frequency
5. LaFaro - Easy Meat
VOTING HAS CLOSED. RESULTS LATER TODAY.
*grabs popcorn*
Bracing self mentally for the brighton_bs who'll scoff at the results
1. Summer Camp - Welcome to Condale
2. Noah and the Whale - Last Night On Earth
3. Slow Club - Palms
4. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
5. White Lies - Ritual
Well done!
for the record.
The Horrible Crowes: Elsie
Bright Eyes: The Peoples Key
Ry Cooder: Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
Bon Iver: Bon Iver
Gary Clark jr: The Bright Lights
1 through 5
top to bottom
Well done!
Well done!